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Government Corruption
19 Recent Deep State Surveillance Abuse Revelations
2023-12-22
[Breitbart] As privacy-oriented lawmakers continue waging their war to rein in government surveillance abuse, there have been several startling revelations about the government’s abuse of surveillance laws.

FreedomWorks and Demand Progress have aggregated some of the most egregious instances of intelligence agencies abusing Americans’ privacy:

  • “[T]ens of thousands” of baseless searches “related to civil unrest” in a one-year period.

  • including 141 racial justice protestors and thousands of January 6 suspects.

  • Searches for individuals an NSA analyst had met on an online dating site, and a prospective tenant.

  • Searches for a state court judge who reported civil rights violations to the FBI.

  • Searches for places of worship that were intentionally hidden from oversight.

  • Searches for a member of HPSCI and a U.S. senator.

  • A “batch” search for 19,000 Congressional donors.

  • “Batch” searches that included current and former federal government officials, journalists, and political commentators.

  • Searches for people who came to the FBI to perform repairs.

  • Searches for victims who came to the FBI to report crimes.

  • Searches for business, religious, and community leaders who applied to participate in the FBI’s “Citizens Academy.”

  • Searches for college students participating in a “Collegiate Academy.”

  • Searches for family members and colleagues.

  • Searches for police officer candidates.

  • Searches for an individual employed by a defense attorney.

  • Searches for a wrongly accused American academic.

  • Searches based on a witness’s report that two men “of Middle Eastern descent” were loading cleaning supplies into a truck.

  • Searches for a local political party.

  • “Batch” searches for 1600 Americans “who had flown through an airport during a particular date range and were either traveling to or returning from a foreign country”

  • 2,000 searches for “the names and dates of birth of individuals who were registered competitors in an athletic event.”
Posted by:Skidmark

#3  In the era of Nixon and Reagan, the DoJ and FBI had no problem being adversarial to the President. The Clinton's began the "salting" focus on the career civil service, and under Obama it was boosted on steroids. In the age of the "Imperial Puppet Show", it has become very clear that many portions of the DoJ, DHS, FBI, DoT, DoS, and other major agencies do not see themselves as civil "servants" any longer.
Posted by: NoMoreBS   2023-12-22 16:57  

#2  /\ National Security concerns will preclude release.

The high dollar "access" Hunter is accused of providing had nothing to do with Joe Biden. It was very likely "access" to garage documents.

Soon be a year since we heard much about the Biden garage documents. Try Google and you'll find a nearly 12 month air gap.

FBI and Justice Department were instructed to disregard, and they complied.
Posted by: Besoeker   2023-12-22 16:06  

#1  And REAL criminal surveillance can't be found

Do feds have FISA evidence on Bidens? Court memos suggest they might, and Congress wants it
Posted by: Skidmark   2023-12-22 12:48  

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